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July 2019

The Lucille Ball Film Collection - Dance, Girl, Dance - The Big Street - Du Barry Was a Lady - Critic's Choice - Mame

Lucille Ball Film Collection

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Lucille Ball Film Collection (Dance Girl Dance / The Big Street / Du Barry Was a Lady / Critic’s Choice / Mame)

Editorial review, courtesy of Amazon.com

Offering an abundance of vintage Hollywood entertainment, the five films included in The Lucille Ball Film Collection cover a broad spectrum of Lucy’s movie career, from one of her most prominent early roles to her final big-screen appearance. Long before she became an icon of TV sitcoms, Lucy had moved from New York to Hollywood in 1933, appearing in a variety of mostly uncredited showgirl roles in over 40 films before getting her first big break in the 1937 classic Stage Door (not included in this set).

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Empire of the Ants, starring Joan Collins, Robert Lansing by Bert I. Gordon

Empire of the Ants

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Empire of the Ants (1977), starring Joan Collins, Robert Lansing by Bert I. Gordon

Review of Empire of the Ants

In short, Empire of the Ants is one of those giant monster movies that are so bad that you sit and watch it with friends, mocking it as you do. It gives the word “cheesy” a bad name.

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The Next Time I Marry (1935) starring Lucille Ball, Lucille Ball , James Ellison , Lee Bowman, Granville Bates

Next Time I Marry [Lucille Ball]

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Next Time I Marry (1938) starring Lucille Ball, James Ellison , Lee Bowman, Granville Bates

Synopsis of Next Time I Marry

In Next Time I Marry, an heiress can only obtain a multi million-dollar inheritance by marrying an American citizen. Despite being in love with a handsome foreigner, she ties the knot with the first man she comes across – a ditch digger. On their way to Nevada to get a quickie divorce, the newlyweds realize that they’ve fallen in love.

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Song lyrics to Cheek to Cheek

Cheek to Cheek song lyrics

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Song lyrics to Cheek to Cheek

Cheek to Cheek is a song written by Irving Berlin in 1935, for the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie Top Hat (1935). It was nominated for the Best Song Oscar for 1936, which it lost to Lullaby of Broadway. The song spent five weeks at #1 on Your Hit Parade and was named the #1 song of 1935. Astaire’s 1935 recording with the Leo Reisman Orchestra was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000. In 2004, Astaire’s version finished at No. 15 on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.

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